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65
Citations
15161
World Ranking
9148
National Ranking
280

Overview

Defeng Xing is affiliated with the Harbin Institute of Technology in China and specializes in the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on pollution, environmental engineering, molecular biology, and water science and technology. Their research addresses various subfields including pollution, environmental engineering, building and construction, molecular biology, and water science and technology, contributing significantly to the understanding of environmental challenges.

The main topics covered in Defeng Xing's research include wastewater treatment and nitrogen removal, microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, anaerobic digestion and biogas production, microplastics and plastic pollution, microbial community ecology and physiology, methane hydrates and related phenomena, and water treatment and disinfection.

Defeng Xing has published extensively, with frequent publications appearing in several academic journals. These publication venues include Chemical Engineering Journal, The Science of The Total Environment, SSRN Electronic Journal, Environmental Science & Technology, and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

Recent papers by Defeng Xing illustrate the breadth of their research topics. These include:

  • Biodegradation of Polyethylene and Polystyrene by Greater Wax Moth Larvae (Galleria mellonella L.) and the Effect of Co-diet Supplementation on the Core Gut Microbiome, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Biodegradation of polypropylene by yellow mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) and superworms (Zophobas atratus) via gut-microbe-dependent depolymerization, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Investigation and fate of microplastics in wastewater and sludge filter cake from a wastewater treatment plant in China, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Zero-valent iron and biochar composite with high specific surface area via K2FeO4 fabrication enhances sulfadiazine removal by persulfate activation, 2020, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Removal of antibiotic resistant bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater effluent by UV-activated persulfate, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials

Collaboration plays a significant role in Defeng Xing's work, with frequent co-authors including Bing-Feng Liu, Guo-Jun Xie, Nanqi Ren, and Chuan Chen. These co-authors appear in multiple publications, reflecting sustained research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Direct Biological Conversion of Electrical Current into Methane by Electromethanogenesis

    Shaoan Cheng;Defeng Xing;Douglas F. Call;Bruce E. Logan

  • Electricity generation by Rhodopseudomonas palustris DX-1.

    Defeng Xing;Yi Zuo;Shaoan Cheng;John M. Regan

  • Pyrosequencing reveals highly diverse microbial communities in microbial electrolysis cells involved in enhanced H2 production from waste activated sludge

    Lu Lu;Defeng Xing;Nanqi Ren

  • Isolation of the Exoelectrogenic Bacterium Ochrobactrum anthropi YZ-1 by Using a U-Tube Microbial Fuel Cell

    Yi Zuo;Defeng Xing;John M. Regan;Bruce E. Logan

  • Simultaneous Cellulose Degradation and Electricity Production by Enterobacter cloacae in a Microbial Fuel Cell

    Farzaneh Rezaei;Defeng Xing;Rachel Wagner;John M. Regan

  • Microbial community structure accompanied with electricity production in a constructed wetland plant microbial fuel cell

    Lu Lu;Defeng Xing;Zhiyong Jason Ren

  • Microbial community structure of ethanol type fermentation in bio‐hydrogen production

    Nanqi Ren;Defeng Xing;Bruce E. Rittmann;Lihua Zhao

  • Biodegradation of Polyethylene and Polystyrene by Greater Wax Moth Larvae (Galleria mellonella L.) and the Effect of Co-diet Supplementation on the Core Gut Microbiome

    Yu Lou;Pererva Ekaterina;Shan-Shan Yang;Baiyun Lu

  • Source of methane and methods to control its formation in single chamber microbial electrolysis cells

    Aijie Wang;Wenzong Liu;Shaoan Cheng;Defeng Xing;Defeng Xing

  • Isolation of the exoelectrogenic denitrifying bacterium Comamonas denitrificans based on dilution to extinction

    Defeng Xing;Shaoan Cheng;Bruce E. Logan;John M. Regan

  • Hydrogen production with effluent from an ethanol-H2-coproducing fermentation reactor using a single-chamber microbial electrolysis cell.

    Lu Lu;Nanqi Ren;Defeng Xing;Defeng Xing;Bruce E. Logan

  • Biodegradation of polypropylene by yellow mealworms (Tenebrio molitor) and superworms (Zophobas atratus) via gut-microbe-dependent depolymerization.

    Shan-Shan Yang;Meng-Qi Ding;Lei He;Chun-Hong Zhang

  • Ubiquity of polystyrene digestion and biodegradation within yellow mealworms, larvae of Tenebrio molitor Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae).

    Shan-Shan Yang;Wei-Min Wu;Anja M. Brandon;Han-Qing Fan

  • Ethanoligenens harbinense gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from molasses wastewater

    Defeng Xing;Nanqi Ren;Qiubo Li;Ming Lin

  • Enhanced hydrogen production from waste activated sludge by cascade utilization of organic matter in microbial electrolysis cells

    Lu Lu;Defeng Xing;Bingfeng Liu;Nanqi Ren

  • Hydrogen production, methanogen inhibition and microbial community structures in psychrophilic single-chamber microbial electrolysis cells

    Lu Lu;Nanqi Ren;Xin Zhao;Huan Wang

  • Electricity generation from food wastes and microbial community structure in microbial fuel cells

    Jianna Jia;Yu Tang;Bingfeng Liu;Di Wu

  • Characterization of methane production and microbial community shifts during waste activated sludge degradation in microbial electrolysis cells

    Rui Sun;Aijuan Zhou;Jianna Jia;Qing Liang

  • Syntrophic interactions drive the hydrogen production from glucose at low temperature in microbial electrolysis cells.

    Lu Lu;Defeng Xing;Nanqi Ren;Bruce E. Logan;Bruce E. Logan

  • Electricity generation of single-chamber microbial fuel cells at low temperatures.

    Shaoan Cheng;Defeng Xing;Defeng Xing;Bruce E. Logan

Frequent Co-Authors

Nanqi Ren
Nanqi Ren Harbin Institute of Technology
Guo-Jun Xie
Guo-Jun Xie Harbin Institute of Technology
Bruce E. Logan
Bruce E. Logan Pennsylvania State University
Shaoan Cheng
Shaoan Cheng Zhejiang University
Wan-Qian Guo
Wan-Qian Guo Harbin Institute of Technology
Wei-Min Wu
Wei-Min Wu Stanford University
Zhiyong Jason Ren
Zhiyong Jason Ren Princeton University
Hongjun Han
Hongjun Han Harbin Institute of Technology
Duu-Jong Lee
Duu-Jong Lee National Taiwan University
Aijie Wang
Aijie Wang Harbin Institute of Technology

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